Africa-Press – South-Africa. Western Cape Cultural Affairs and Sports MEC Ricardo Mackenzie alleges the BT Football Academy most likely didn’t use official structures to secure a trip to a tournament in Spain.
Thirty-four children and four coaches found themselves stranded in Portugal after the academy failed to secure return flights.
There are now growing calls for the owners of the academy to be held accountable.
Mackenzie said that if needs be, he would personally lay a criminal complaint to hold those responsible for this sporting blunder.
“So there’s an incredible series of events that we, as government, that we will need to investigate and prevent academies like these who clearly didn’t go through any formal structure like SAFA or any other organisation to get their hands on some of these international tours and obviously these are not sanctioned tours.”
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